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Students and the Pressure to Perform

As college application deadlines loom, parents, educators and mental health professionals are asking if the amped up pressure on kids to get into elite schools has pushed students to the breaking point.

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The amped up race to get kids into elite colleges is sending some kids to emergency rooms with panic attacks, and worse... is academic pressure pushing teenagers to the breaking point. Guest host Barbara Bogaev asks what can be done about it.

Later on the program, more than 70 years after the end of World War II, the long awaited reparations for the Comfort Women.

Iraqi government forces retook central parts of Ramadi today from the Islamic State, although pockets of resistance remain. Recovering control over that key city of would allow Iraq to cut off supply lines to Fallujah and potentially recover that city as well. Matt Bradley, Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, joins us from Baghdad with an update.

Silicon Valley's Palo Alto school district is in crisis. The suicide rate for teenagers there is four to five times the national average. This tragic statistic has made the city a symbol of the pressure kids live under in affluent communities to get into elite colleges, to excel at everything, to succeed at all costs. This week, as high school seniors and their families gather around computers racing to finish their college applications, we ask whether the obsession with getting into the best colleges is hurting kids more than helping them, and what schools, parents and students can do lessen the stress.

After decades of tension, Japan and South Korea have finally agreed on a landmark settlement concerning one of the darker chapters of World War II, the so called Comfort Women, Korean women who were forced to serve as a sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army. As part of the settlement Japan formally apologized to South Korea for the use of the Comfort women and agreed to pay more than $8 million in compensation. Victor Cha is the director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, and former Asia Director on the National Security Council between 2004 and 2007.

Guests:Victor Cha, Georgetown University / Center for Strategic and International Studies (@vcgiants)